Simon Paul Thurston

If you want to make more of your talents and live up to your full potential, and this applies to everything from business to sport to simply living a better life, you have to learn to change your habits.

Assessing the skills you currently have, and looking at the new skills, future objectives or overall goals that you want to achieve is a good starting point in terms of self analysis. You also need to believe that you can improve your performance, your productivity, and the quality of your whole life.

So what are the ingredients for being successful and what makes a high achiever? Is it luck, intelligence, talent, dedication or a combination of all four ? Well, it’s certainly right to point out that not all intelligent, talented and hard working people become successful, or would even consider themselves truely happy.

It is also fair to say that we know (of) people who are not exceptionally bright but seem to be very happy and successful. For example, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise and Sir Richard Branson all have something in common, apart from the fact that they were or are highly successful in their given area of expertise. The answer ….. they ‘ve all suffered with dyslexia.

So there must be something else, some other ’secret’ to success. Well, actually there are several ’secrets’ to fulfilling your potential, and they are largely to do with how you think and how you act and as a result of this, what you do.

Achieving success in business, friendship or love is largely determined by your own self-image, so in essence, what you think about yourself. Your unhappiness is something that you choose, so that would equally apply to your happiness and success too.

 Well, that’s it for Part 1, in Part 2 we’ll go into more detail of exactly how to go about starting your journey into improving yourself and fulfilling your potential.